Bring Scrapingbee
to Windsurf
Learn how to connect ScrapingBee to Windsurf and start using 10 AI agent tools in minutes. Fully managed, enterprise secure, and ready to use without writing a single line of code.
What is the ScrapingBee MCP Server?
Connect your ScrapingBee account to any AI agent and take full control of your web data extraction and stealth scraping orchestration through natural conversation. ScrapingBee provides a robust scraping API that handles headless browsers, rotating proxies, and automated CAPTCHA solving, and this integration allows you to retrieve raw HTML, take screenshots, and use AI-driven extraction rules directly from your chat interface.
What you can do
- Stealth Scraper Orchestration — Retrieve raw HTML from any website while bypassing anti-bot systems and CAPTCHAs programmatically.
- JavaScript Rendering Control — Toggle headless browser rendering to extract data from modern, dynamic SPAs directly from the AI interface.
- AI-Driven Data Extraction — Use AI extraction rules to parse complex web pages into structured JSON data via natural language.
- Premium Proxy Intelligence — Access residential and premium proxies to scrape high-security websites without risk of IP blocking.
- Operational Monitoring — Track system activity and monitor API credit consumption using simple AI commands.
How it works
1. Subscribe to this server
2. Enter your ScrapingBee API Key from your dashboard
3. Start scraping and extracting web data from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client
No more managing browser clusters or rotating proxy pools. Your AI acts as a dedicated data engineer or automation coordinator.
Who is this for?
- Market Researchers — quickly retrieve competitor pricing and product data without dealing with technical blocks.
- Growth Engineers — automate the extraction of lead metadata from high-security platforms via natural conversation.
- Data Analysts — streamline the conversion of dynamic web pages into structured datasets directly within the chat.
Built-in capabilities (10)
Extract structured data from a page
Extract JSON data using natural language
Extract JSON data using CSS/XPath selectors
Check API credit usage
Get current API usage and remaining credits
Automatically handles JavaScript, proxies, and anti-bot measures. Scrape a webpage with full browser rendering
Scrape a page with JavaScript rendering enabled
Scrape a page using premium proxy rotation
Scrape a page with stealth mode to bypass bot detection
Handles rendering automatically. Capture a screenshot of a website
Why Windsurf?
Windsurf's Cascade agent chains multiple ScrapingBee tool calls autonomously. query data, analyze results, and generate code in a single agentic session. Paste Vinkius Edge URL, reload, and all 10 tools are immediately available. Real-time tool feedback appears inline, so you see API responses directly in your editor.
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Windsurf's Cascade agent autonomously chains multiple tool calls in sequence, solving complex multi-step tasks without manual intervention
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Purpose-built for agentic workflows. Cascade understands context across your entire codebase and integrates MCP tools natively
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JSON-based configuration means zero code changes: paste a URL, reload, and all 10 tools are immediately available
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Real-time tool feedback is displayed inline, so you see API responses directly in your editor without switching contexts
ScrapingBee in Windsurf
ScrapingBee and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect ScrapingBee to Windsurf through Vinkius don't need to source, host, or maintain individual MCP servers. Every tool call runs inside a hardened runtime with credential isolation, DLP, and a signed audit chain.
Raw MCP | Vinkius | |
|---|---|---|
| Server catalog | Find and host yourself | 3,400+ managed |
| Infrastructure | Self-hosted | Sandboxed V8 isolates |
| Credential handling | Plaintext in config | Vault + runtime injection |
| Data loss prevention | None | Configurable DLP policies |
| Kill switch | None | Global instant shutdown |
| Financial circuit breakers | None | Per-server limits + alerts |
| Audit trail | None | Ed25519 signed logs |
| SIEM log streaming | None | Splunk, Datadog, Webhook |
| Honeytokens | None | Canary alerts on leak |
| Custom domains | Not applicable | DNS challenge verified |
| GDPR compliance | Manual effort | Automated purge + export |
Why teams choose Vinkius for ScrapingBee in Windsurf
The ScrapingBee MCP Server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS — a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts. All 10 tools execute in hardened sandboxes optimized for native MCP execution.
Your AI agents in Windsurf only access the data you authorize, with DLP that blocks sensitive information from ever reaching the model, kill switch for instant shutdown, and up to 60% token savings. Enterprise-grade infrastructure, zero maintenance.
* Every MCP server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS - a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts optimized for native MCP execution. See our infrastructure
How Vinkius secures
ScrapingBee for Windsurf
Every tool call from Windsurf to the ScrapingBee MCP Server is protected by DLP redaction, cryptographic audit chains, V8 sandbox isolation, kill switch, and financial circuit breakers.
Frequently asked questions
Can my AI automatically extract structured JSON from a web page using ScrapingBee?
Yes! Use the extract_data tool. You can provide standard extraction rules or set ai=true to let ScrapingBee's AI models identify and parse the data fields you need automatically.
How do I use premium or residential proxies for high-security sites?
Simply include premium_proxy: true in your scrape_general parameters. This will route your request through residential IPs, making it much harder for anti-bot systems to detect and block.
How do I find my ScrapingBee API Key?
Log in to your ScrapingBee dashboard, and your API Key will be clearly visible in the Credentials section on the main page.
How does Windsurf discover MCP tools?
Windsurf reads the mcp_config.json file on startup and connects to each configured server via Streamable HTTP. Tools are listed in the MCP panel and available to Cascade automatically.
Can Cascade chain multiple MCP tool calls?
Yes. Cascade is an agentic system. it can plan and execute multi-step workflows, calling several tools in sequence to accomplish complex tasks without manual prompting between steps.
Does Windsurf support multiple MCP servers?
Yes. Add as many servers as needed in mcp_config.json. Each server's tools appear in the MCP panel and Cascade can use tools from different servers in a single flow.
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